The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-27
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.

Grevy Not Yet Ready Resign-The Lett
Unable to Agree on a Candidate.
PARIS. Nov. 26-President Crews message
of resignation will be read before the Rouvier
Cabinet tonight.
General Saussier has definitely declined to be-
come a candidate for the presidency, and NJ.
Ferry will probably be elected.
1t is not certain that NJ. Grevy will announce
his resignation Monday. In interview
with Deputy to-day the President said: ~ am
master of my day and hour. must yet see
what have to do and say"
The presidents of the groups Of the Left, at
their conference on the proposed pIenary meet
ing to appoint a candidate for the presidency,
failed to agree
TIE commanders of the various army corps
have been ordered to return to their posts i'm
mediately. This order is aimed at General
Boulanger, who is now in Paris.
Popular Feeling Toward M. Grevy.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
LONDON Nov. 26-The fall of NJ Grevy has
brought to that statesman tidal wave of sym
pathy. even his political enemies expressing
sorrow at the necessity for his withdrawal
which circums tances have created. No one
seems willing to accuse him Of anything worse
than stupid submission to the designs of NJ.
Wilson, whose moro recent acts are universally
admitted to have been crooked, but which it is
conceded the President knew nothing about
specifically. At the conference between
the President and the Rouvier Cabinet,
last evening, nj. Crews pathetic refer
ences to recent events drew tears
from the eyes of all present, and NJ. Clemenceau
expressed himself to-day as amazed at the
stability of the old man, who. in spite of the
overwhelming odds against him and the fact that
the circumstances which have led up to the
present condition OF affairs fell little short of
fastening a certain degree of guilt upon him,
had stood up for France and refused to relin-
Qulsh the relns OF government until q new and
practicable scheme for preserving the integrity
OF the republic should be fully assured Presl-
dent Grevy, however. has no faith In NJ.
Clemenceaus ability to form a stable govern
ment. and his delay in offering his resignation is
due almost wholly to this fact The crisis has
aroused greater interest than 10 usually
felt among Frenchmen upon similar occasions.
owing to the general conviction that its immedi-
ate effect must be to involve France in civil con-
fusion and to give prominence and authority to
desperate men if it should be prolonged. There
is another effect imminent which it is dficult to
forecast. On the one hand, this sudden and
dramatic revival of political excitement may dis.
tract the minds of Frenchmen from those dreams
OF revenge and military glory which the recent
other hand, it may be found that a
out of yne civil complications to which
this act OF the extreme Radicals in forcing M.
Grevy to resign has give rise. Both the friends
of the Comte de Paris and of Prince Victor Ma
poleon profess to be hopeful that their favorite
will be called upon, before many months have
passed. to administer the affairs of France, and,
if the Rspubica MS do not combine. the monarch
lists surely will hold the balance and must neces-
sarsly reap advantages. In any event, it is not
believed that the revanchists will score success
in the struggle for supremacy.
1t is reported that the Comte De Paris and
his secretary have arrived here, bringing with
them ma nifesto to be published on the eve of
the presiden tial election.